GPS Wellness

Willem De Kooning, the great 20th century abstract exressionist, noticed that he was having problems remembering things.  His wife Elaine, wrote to him warning that despite his good physical health that he would soon be a vegetable.  Though painful, the remark was darkly truthful. deKooning was a victim of Alzheimer’s and was going to lose his genius, his memory and his will. Yet his genius persisted allwong him to create more than three hundred works in the decade before he succumbed.

Curiously a panel of curators was establishied to determine the value of De Kooning’s contribution because his dementia should surely have impacted his genius.  Even more curious was the lack of a similar inquiry in the 50’s and 60’s to evaluate the works he created as an alcholic.

The stigma of dementia afflicts all of us… rendering us as vacant as a blank canvas. The vacancy left by those lost memories means that we may wander and need assistance finding the path home. To that seeming simple challenge of remembering our address, thirty satellites circumnavigating the globe send the location of lost love ones carrying Personal Location Systems notifying caregivers of  their precise location before the paint dries.

We are the sum of our memories… remembrances tucked neatly into three pound cerebral packages as fragile as a potato chip with one hundred trillion incomprehensible pathways taken completely for granted until it malfunctions.

Alzheimer’s estimated monetary cost of $700 billion will pale by comparison to the loss of productivity and intellectual wealth which will diminish our civilization imprisoning the memories of an entire generation in a crib of cerebral plaque.

The progression of Alzheimer’s will cause one of every four victims to wander…If not found quickly, they will succumb to the elements, accidents or attacks. Searching for them…hundreds of thousands of them at a time…may precipitate the collapse of our current municipal and health support systems.

One possible solution is incarceration, another is sedative drugs, but one other provides care givers with the ability to manage their charges whereabouts by tracking their locations in real time with a miniaturized GPS transceiver sending signals to personal computers, cell phones or mobile devices… a personal location service.

To learn more about GPS Personal Location Services visit: www.GTXCorp.com

Or take a read of David Shenk’s “The Forgetting” and learn what Andy Carle is calling Nanna Technlogy; http://images.usatoday.com/tech/graphics/nana_tech/flash.swf